1. John Solomon "Sol" Rosevear was an Australian politician.
20 Facts About Sol Rosevear
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Sol Rosevear was Speaker of the Australian House of Representatives from 1943 to 1950.
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Sol Rosevear was a member of the Australian Labor Party and represented the seat of Dalley in the House of Representatives from 1931 until his death in 1953.
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Sol Rosevear was associated with the Lang Labor faction until the early 1940s.
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Sol Rosevear was the seventh child of Maria and William John Rosevear.
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Sol Rosevear attended the local public school before beginning work in the timber industry, where he became known as a skilled tradesman.
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Sol Rosevear married Clara May White on 23 September 1916, with whom he had two children.
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Sol Rosevear became involved in the labour movement at a young age as a member of the Timber Workers' Union.
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Sol Rosevear was active in the Leichhardt branch of the ALP and served as president of the electorate council for Dalley.
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Sol Rosevear managed Ted Theodore's campaign at the 1929 federal election.
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Sol Rosevear lost his job and led the Leichhardt Unemployed Workers' Relief Movement during the Great Depression.
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Sol Rosevear registered for the dole, and was due to receive his first payment on the day he was elected to federal parliament.
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Sol Rosevear was an Australian Labor Party official and organised Ted Theodore's campaign in 1929.
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Sol Rosevear sat in the House of Representatives under the leadership of Jack Beasley until 1936, when the two factions reunited.
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In 1941, John Curtin reunited the Labor Party and Sol Rosevear rejoined the ALP.
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Sol Rosevear was disappointed not to receive a cabinet post, but was appointed Speaker of the House of Representatives on 22 June 1943.
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Sol Rosevear permitted illegal gambling in the Chamber, and participated himself.
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Sol Rosevear continued to be influential in caucus, and it was rumoured that he hoped to succeed Ben Chifley as party leader, but his "taste for grog" was seen as a disqualification by some.
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Sol Rosevear continued to sit in the House until his death of coronary occlusion on 21 March 1953.
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Sol Rosevear was survived by his wife, a son and a daughter.